I want to express some extra gratitude to the world today.  I’m on the precipice of change, we all are, but I know this change is something that will greatly impact my family.  It is the culmination of years of work, a dream, refining that dream and developing the skill to bring that dream to life.  I am grateful to have time with my family.  We’ve been through a lot of loss this year and I am ever grateful that I still have my family and that we are able to better reconnect with the family that is still here.  I have regrets about the last several years and the way we could have spent our time, but I am grateful to have the ability to spend time and appreciate who is here, to understand love, and to finally put pieces of the past to rest so we can all experience love for each other.  Love isn’t a tit for tat, a tally of who did what for or to whom.  It’s about the time with each other and how we support each other—how we show up. I am grateful to have a chance to make things right with those around me.

I’m grateful to continue to navigate my relationship with faith.  I’m not a religious person but I have appreciation for the fact that there are continual signs of support and reasons to believe.  I’m grateful to have tools and materials to approach my journey from different directions so I finally feel the connection in a way that makes sense.  I’ve been cared for, I have made it through every tough spot.  I’m still here and I still have purpose and the signs from the universe still continue to come.  I’ve learned how to deal with my guilt even if I can’t stop it, and I am grateful to turn that guilt around into lessons learned and support for others.  I am fortunate to have the responsibility I do, the ability to take care of my life, to share my life, to love my life, to build my life, to enjoy my life.  It is a gift to be on this ride. 

I am grateful to enjoy this day, to spend this time out on beautiful land, connecting with nature and feeling the quiet.  That connection allows me to see the size of this Earth and remember how small I am but helps me completely understand how lucky I am that I still get to play a part in this.  So grateful that I get to be with people I love, so grateful that I get to share what I have with them.  I am so grateful that we get to remember the life left in this world and the light that we each can bring with us wherever we go, whenever we want to.  We have so much power over our experience here and we need to remember at all times how we interact with ourselves determines how we interact with others and our connection to spirit, this Earth, ourselves creates an experience felt by all.  We have so much to be grateful for and we need to focus on the light now more than ever.  There is hope in the light, and gratitude fuels hope.  There is always something to be thankful for.